Is this still for sale?

Under $2000 is what I'm looking to spend.

Was wondering if I could get some speaker recommendations for the Sony NW-WM1A from you all. I'm looking for a high-end desk/shelf speaker specifically. I've yet to connect this to anything other than a pair of headphones. I know the deceive has Bluetooth pairing but can it also be connected to...

I have the brightness turned down to the minimum, balanced output on high gain with the bass, minds, and treble each turned up to 7 in the Tone Control (no other sound settings are being used) and with this setup I'm getting 15-20 hours roughly.

I highly recommend the Moondrop Starfields. At a little over $100, I find them to be amazing IEMs that honestly sound better than the pairs of Kennerton and Denon headphones that I tried and they work excellent with the Sony, at least to my ears.

Are you using the silver-plated or copper LQI cables? Currently on the hunt for a balanced set.

Highly recommend the Fat Bear case which protected by 1A from a near 5 foot drop today (stupid me :angry:). Hopefully no insides were damaged.

I'm sure this has been addressed but how do the mods effect battery life?

I had the Denon D9200 and can tell you I did not like them with the WM1A, so much so I sold them fairly quickly (unfortunately at a small l loss). They sounded distant and almost muffled with higher frequencies sounding very suppressed. Balanced cable did help a little but not by much. The...

An odd question but assuming that I do nothing with the sound features, does turning Direct Sound off and on do anything? If all sound settings are at 0 or off, is that the same as having Direct Sound on even though it's toggled off?

This is interesting as I hear a bit more clarity when I toggle the Dynamic Normalizer. It also sounds like a boost, not unlike turning up the bass, mid, treble in the Tone Control. Tweaking the EQ, or Tone Control, or the Dynamic Normalizer produces a more clear sound to my ears than Direct...

I originally had is set on Direct Sound but I've found that at least having the Dynamic Normalizer on helped produce a sound my ears like better. Still tweaking other settings to see if I like any.

Brightness is set to 1 which is actually perfect but direct is off.

Got it, thank you. Currently running only the Dynamic Normalizer but have been fiddling around with the Tone Control and if dial them up, there is certainly a perceived boost, almost like an additional gain and I'm already running High Gain.

No DSP, just FLAC files I'm playing